Messages

Very nice! It's looking like a Mega Man forum again!

This actually made me want to create my own forum, like I had way back when, so I did. Can't imagine it'll have a ton of traffic, but hey.

I've played the PC ports of X4 and X3. I liked them. However, I find that their use-case is kind of niche today. I was only playing them because I had this super old laptop and I was trying to find out some ways I could inject new life into it.

Cleaning this place up would require some serious moderation. Bots comment on junk automatically. At first glance, it seems that bots have been having their run of the place for years. How long's it been since this place had frequent active human users?

I think the first thing you'd need is to strictly prohibit anyone from making a post without a registered and email-verified account. Further, I think it's sad but true to say that the entire forum would need to be purged of all its existing content and we'd need to start over. Given the sheer volume of nonsense on here, it would look sketchy to newcomers for it all to remain, and it would make the job of reviving the board even tougher.

Also, it appears that the majority of the emoticons don't even work. There are just a lot of structural problems, but with proper moderation, I think they could be overcome and we could perhaps use existing Mega Man spaces like Facebook groups and Reddit boards to spread the word.

Here I was browsing some of the old websites I used to frequent in the '00s and '10s, and I find that most of them are totally dead. The OP for this thread posted exactly the kind of question I have been thinking myself. Every site in the Mega Man fandom is either dead, overrun with bots, or they've been taken offline.

My account here was made in 2014, but I was a user here in the mid-2000s, before they changed the bulletin board platform used for these forums. It looked a hell of a lot more personalized back then. All sorts of blue sprite graphics and mechanical/robotic-looking accents in the interface to showcase that, without a doubt, this was indeed a Mega Man forum. I was also active on many of the other Mega Man fandom boards, like Sprites-INC, Damaged Games, BME StudioZ, and several others (whose names are escaping me.) I can't remember if he had a forum, but I used to chat with Strider of Strider's Mega Man Domain. I was also the administrator of Protoman's Lair, a lesser-known site and forum that specialized in sprite comics, from 2006-2009. There were so many options to engage back then, which was great, considering I found it was somewhat challenging to meet fans of the series IRL. (Still is. Probably harder now, honestly.)

I check in every now and then to places like these just to see "if there's anyone out there." Almost always, the result is the same: the boards are long dead. Sadly, another thing I notice is that when I find some forums for other areas of interest for me (not necessarily gaming) which *aren't* dead, they are overrun with people trying to talk rather aggressively about hot-button political issues.

I appreciate you making this post. Reminds me that there are still people out there. There are no shortage of fans of this series in the world, but in my experience, few are dedicated.